The Ecole Royale Militaire - Noble Education, Institutional Innovation, and Royal Charity, 1750-1788 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)

This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education. The school is distinguished for being an Enlightenment project, one of its founders publishing an article on it in the Encyclopedie in 1755. Its curriculum broke completely with the Latin pedagogy of the dominant Jesuit system, while adapting the legacy of seventeenth-century riding academies. Its status touches on the nature of absolutism, as it was conceived to glorify the Bourbon dynasty in a similar way to the girls' school at Saint Cyr and the Invalides. It was also a dispensary of royal charity calculated to ally the nobility more closely to royal interests through military service. In the army, its proofs of nobility were the model for the much debated 1781 Segur decree, often described as a notable cause of the French Revolution.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Haroldo A. Guizar
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	301
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-045933-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800 Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800
LSN:	3-03-045933-0
Barcode:	9783030459338

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